Re: Emacs gets font wrong at start up

> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> > Like I suspected, the real problem here was that the font name ended
> > in "-8", which Emacs interpreted as a size.
> > 
> > I fixed this in the development sources.  The original
> > custom-set-faces form still doesn't select this font, but this does:
> >   (set-frame-font "Topaz-8")
> 
> So it was essentially a bug in this case.

Yes and no.  On X, it's a bad idea to have "-NN" as part of a font
name, because the XLFD spec will cause that number to be interpreted.
That's what Emacs did.  The authors of the font should have known
better.